We live in a collection illusion of fear and scarcity, behind a veil, created by the ego. This delusion masks reality.
Albert Einstein wrote that “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” Oscar Wilde wrote that "It takes a great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it."
What does this all mean? Why are we not aware of it?
William Blake wrote that "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite."
The mortal world does everything it can to hide the real reality, by casting a veil, at every opportunity, over the reality of the Universe. As Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” We have forgotten who we truly are, and as a result, live in constant fear. Learning the spiritual tenets of the Universe that we live in is the first step to Enlightenment. Everyone is on a spiritual journey: Most people just don't know it. The spiritual path is the path of the heart. Our freedom consists in how we use our minds to free our heart to express its wisdom. You must first realise the prison of your mind before you can escape it.
The prison of your mind
What is not love, the illusion, does not actually exist. What we perceive as the real world is in fact a giant collective hallucination. The material world is but a veil, in front of a world that is more True, more real, and more beautiful. The veil is created by the ego, not to illuminate, but to hide the world that lies beyond it. Everything that causes us to suffer is happening in a world of illusion. This is our human experience, but it is not the truth of who we are. We live in a world that is more real than this one: It is the world beyond the veil. The spiritual world is a Universe of love, and love only. The self that suffers is not the real you. The world can throw terrible things your way, but it cannot change the truth of who you really are. Who you really are is a being of love, completely unaffected by the lovelessness of the world. The world will try to convince you that you are who you really aren't, and that you aren't who you really are. Separated from who we truly are, we become insane.
We live in a truly miraculous Universe. The Universe is both self-organising and self-correcting. It works like a GPS, which recalibrates at every turn, providing a more efficient route. When lost in the illusion of fear, we can return to love, and thus return to peace. Miracles are thoughts of love. When our minds are attuned to love, things unfold miraculously.
We have six senses, with thinking being the sixth sense and the filter that alters our perception of the other five. When we think with fear, which most of us do all the time, we are not thinking at all, as only love is real. A miracle is a divine intercession, restoring the celestial order, breaking us free from the chains of illusion that otherwise bind us, by lifting us above the chains of the mortal world. We must be willing to see things differently.
Eckhart Tolle wrote that "There's a huge amount of suffering that is generated not by the actual challenges of life but by the fictitious problems that the mind generates."
Charlie Chaplin said "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."
Loving thought creates loving feelings, and loving feelings create loving behaviour, taking us closer to our Selves, each other, and God.
Every thought we think leads us deeper into love, or deeper into fear. Love is sane, and fear is not. The loving mind is the right mind. As Mahatma Gandhi said "The problem with the world today, is that humanity is not in its right mind."
Love is in fact our natural state, from which we have veered as a species, and to which all of us long to return. Ultimately, we all return to love. How quickly you do so is up to you.
In every moment we have to decide whether to be host to God, or hostage to the ego. The world will offer you numerous ways to numb your pain or fortify your anger. You will always find people to agree with you: To feel that you have been victimised. To paraphrase Marianne Williamson, if you build a case against those that you think have hurt you, you are dooming your Self to self-pity, an isolated existence, and misery. Or, you can have a miracle instead. You are not at the mercy of a fear-laden world. In Jesus' words in Matthew 16:23 “Get thee behind Me, Satan! Thou art an offence unto Me; for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.” The most powerful thought is a prayer-full thought.
The ego has an endless supply by which it treats the problems that it creates: For example, selfish behaviour or addiction. But none of them do anything but drive us deeper into despair. One thing that the ego will never suggest is that love is always the answer, because love is the ego's dissolution, and it knows it. Its survival is our destruction. The weak ego sees attack as strength. But love is not weakness, it is the power of the Universe.
The problem is not how much love creates miracles: The problem is how much we resist love. The Universe will not be done with us until love is our only reality. The Universe will make sure that you realise your fullest potential.
If you do the inner work, the work will pay off. Fear is everywhere and it feels as though love is no-where. We are taught to fear. Fear is the power of our minds turned against ourselves. Fear is self-hatred posing as self love. We are collectively ill due to this fear and materially-based mentality. This hurts us. Our worth is valued by external factors, so we crave them, rather than realising that our self-worth is non-negotiable and is who we are. This is diseased thinking which fosters fear. This society leaves people heartbroken. This will only be healed when it is addressed on a spiritual level. Our world-view needs to be healed.
The solution to, or the dissolution of, the illusion, is to only think from a place of unconditional love. Therefore, in every moment, if you have to make a decision, only ask your Self “What would love do?” You are not alone.
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